Tudor Time Machine's Miserable Maladies: Sweating Sickness
From Tudor Time Machine Podcast by Tudor Time Machine
May 19, 2026 · 7 min · Episode 251
About this episode
The episode discusses Philadelphia's experience with sweating sickness and speculates on its possible causes.
Philadelphia tells a tale of overcoming her very own sweating sickness ordeal. Gage and Jessica speculate as to whether the sickness was really a hantavirus similar to that of today. Or even perhaps something less dramatic.
People in this episode
Hosts: Gage, Jessica
Topics covered
- sweating sickness
- historical diseases
- medical speculation
- Tudor history
- hantavirus
Keywords
- sweating sickness
- Tudor
- hantavirus
- disease
- history
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